Locating School Textbooks and Children's Literature

For a quick way to locate textbooks or children's literature books, please go to the advanced search screen of the Library catalog.

1. Type your topic and select Anywhere

2. In the Limit your search further section, select Location

3. Select either Curriculum Collection or Children's Literature to only search those areas.

You may also do the following in the regular catalog.

1.Type school textbook collection as a Subject Heading.

2.Click School textbook collection in the Subject: Topic area to narrow results by topic.Then click show more which will show elementary or secondary.If you click show more again, you will get the subject areas.

Google Books

Google has scanned numerous books and made the content searchable. If you can not find the book you need at the FGCU Library, sometimes you can view a book or some of its contents using Google Book Search.